The Economic Consequences of the International Migration of Labor

Hanson, Gordon

The Economic Consequences of the International Migration of Labor

No 14490, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: In this paper, I selectively discuss recent empirical work on the consequences of global labor mobility. I examine how international migration affects the incomes of individuals in sending and receiving countries and of migrants themselves. Were a social planner to choose the migration policies that would maximize global welfare, she would need to know, among other values, the elasticities of wages, prices, taxes, and government transfers with respect to national labor supplies, as well as how these parameters vary across countries. My goal is to evaluate the progress of the literature in terms of providing these inputs.

JEL-codes: F22 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-11
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Published as Gordon H. Hanson, 2009. "The Economic Consequences of the International Migration of Labor," Annual Review of Economics, Annual Reviews, vol. 1(1), pages 179-208, 05.

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